page_title: September 1980
section_title: September 27, 1980 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: September 1980 / September 27, 1980 (Saturday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Francesco Cossiga in 1979
context_page_description: Chun Doo Hwan was inaugurated as the new President of South Korea.
  Terry Fox, an amputee who had started a transcontinental run across Canada on April 12, to raise money for cancer research, was forced to end after having run 3,339 miles of the nearly 5,300 miles journey. Having started from St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on the Atlantic coast with a goal of reaching the Pacific Ocean port of Victoria, British Columbia, Fox had raised $1.7 million USD before suffering shortness of breath and nausea outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario, where he was taken to the Port Arthur General Hospital, originally for stomach flu. The next day, Fox announced that the cancer that had taken his leg had returned and had spread to his lungs.
  Francisco Villagrán Kramer resigned from his position as Vice President of Guatemala in a protest against the increased repression of human rights by President Romeo Lucas García.
context_section_description: By a single vote, the economic proposals of Italy's Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga failed to win approval in Camara dei deputati, failing 297 to 298.  At least 30 members of the governing  Democrazia Cristiana (DC) party had previously stated that they would go against the economic proposals.  Two DC members who had expressed support for Cossiga, and presumabley would have potentially made the vote 299 to 298 in his favor, arrived several minutes too late to participate, including Mariapia Garavaglia.  Fifteen minutes after the vote was announced, Prime Minister Cossiga announced his resignation along with his entire cabinet, which included a coalition of Socialists and Republicans.    On October 18, Arnaldo Forlani was appointed Prime Minister and formed a new coalition.
  The Richmond Tigers defeated the Collingwood Magpies, 159 to 78, to win the Victorian Football League's Grand Final and the championship of Australian rules football.  The match took place in front of 113,461 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
caption: Cossiga, toppled by a single vote
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